LATENT ISSUES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 284, 25 August 1908, Page 5

LATENT ISSUES.

FORCED TO THE FRONT BY THE FLEET TWO PACIFIC STATES. A HAPPY PARALLELISM. . (BY TELEGRAM—PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.) (Rec. August 24, 11 p.m.) London, August 24. "Tho Times" says that Sydney's welcome to tho United ■ States Fleet makes it clear that tho possible political issues havo been kept so much in the background that their mention in-tho cpmments of the British and tho American Press is felt almost as an'intrusion. ."Tile Times" emphasises the fact that Australian minds, from the highest to the lowest, aro occupied with tho pleasure of giving hospitality to and entertaining and welcoming the country's friends, and with a feeling of pride in their position as the Empire's representatives. Sydney, August 24. The "Herald" says:—"One result of the cruise of the American Fleet is sure to be a quickening of the imagination of Australia, of Canada, and of South Africa to a sense of their part in the sea power of the Empire, and it would be shrewd, sound policy, worthy of a great statesman, to contrive that a great British Fleet should in a similar way visit the King's dominions beyond the seas. ' "But though the Imperial aspect of \the visit is fraught with deep meaning, perhaps what is uppermost in tho minds of the majority is the happy parallelism between America and Australia as Pacific states. In a 1 dim way wo realise what the future of the Pacific must be, that the centre of gravity of the world's' commerce is moving towards a point within it, and that bound up in this manifest destiny is the manifest destiny of amity arid concord between America and Britain.' 1 ■